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Summary

Artist



Alternative names	Hans Holbein the Younger
Description	German painter
Date of birth/death	1497 or 1498	before 29 November 1543
Location of birth/death	Augsburg	London
Work location	Basel, Lucerne, London
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

Portrait of Henry VIII (1491-1547)

Description

English:

Henry VIII and Henry VII, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg

This small-format panel is Holbein's only individual portrait of Henry. It resembles the figure of Henry in the surviving part of Holbein's cartoon drawing for his lost wall-painting at Whitehall Palace (right), and both were probably derived from the same portrait drawing. Other portraits of Henry based on Holbein's types were the work of studios or copyists. The costly ultramarine background is unusual for a panel painting, though it was common in French miniatures, and the portrait, which has a fine miniature-like finish including powdered gold, may have been intended as a gift to the French court.

Holbein probably painted the portrait shortly after Anne Boleyn's execution on 19 May 1536, at the time of Henry's marriage to Jane Seymour, whose portrait Holbein also painted. The suggestion that Henry's portrait formed a pair with Jane's is discounted by most scholars on grounds of size and of differences on the reverse. (References: Buck, pp. 119–20; John Rowlands, Holbein: The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger, David R. Godine: Boston, 1985, ISBN 0879235780, p. 114; Susan Foister, Holbein in England, London: Tate, 2006, ISBN 1854376454, p. 96.)

Date

circa 1536-1537

Medium

oil on oak

Dimensions

28 × 19 cm (11 × 7.5 in)

Current location

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

	Native name	Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
	Location	Madrid, Spain
	Coordinates	40° 24′ 58.00″ N, 3° 41′ 42.00″ W
	Established	1992
	Website	www.museothyssen.org
	Authority control	WorldCat

Room 5

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References

museothyssen.org

Source/Photographer

Stephanie Buck, Hans Holbein, Cologne: Könemann, 1999, ISBN 3829025831.

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